If You Sneeze on Monday

DESCRIPTION: "(If you) sneeze on Monday, (you) sneeze for danger, Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger, Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter... Sneeze on a Sunday, your safety seek, Or the devil will take you for the rest of the week."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: nonballad Devil warning
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North)) US(MW)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #536, p. 219, "(If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger)"
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 47, "Sneeze on Monday" (1 text)
Welsch-NebraskaPioneerLore, p. 269, "(no title)" (1 text, very different ("Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for news, Sneeze on Tuesday, new pair of shoes"), but obviously built about the same notion); p. 276, "(no title)" (1 text, again very different: "Sneeze on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth....")
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 86-87, "(Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Marjorie Rowling, _The Folklore of the Lake District_, Rowman and Littlefield, 1976, p. 132, "(Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger") (1 text)
Roud #16325
File: Dolb047B

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